Nick says the newly-formed group wants to see lower interest rates for farmers and a possible move towards crowd-funding for agriculture as a desired outcome.

But he says he's under no illusion that the group's aim, or his run will be easy.

"There is an issue of farmers being charged high interest rates, especially when they are seen to be high risk, the awareness of foreign investment resulting in foreign ownership of farming lands," he says.

"Hopefully the farming future is a lot easier than this slog, there are at least 30 kilometres in the wildness section in the middle where there is virtually no track at all, I'll be blazing my own trail for a lot of it."